Rape-apologist bingo:
From the fivethirtyeight discussion here:
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It’s my sincerest hope that people like that get a cinema-style death, where all their past behavior comes back to haunt them and finally sends them over the edge.
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I’m happy to say that I have no idea who Arnold Simpson is. He doesn’t have a very creative mind.
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I too know not. But if some people are going to say “The only person who can render you a victim is you,” I think it’s important to point out the problem…
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Kavanaugh’s yearbook references slang for gang rape.
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Interesting, given his assertions in the interview with Fox that not only did he not sexually assault someone in high school, he didn’t first have sex until “many years after” he left high school.
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I knew it while I was reading that shit, that it was some sort of code for some kind of fuckery or another.
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Why can’t rich, white prep-boys just get a fair chance!?!?!?!
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Elsewhere I read that “The FFFFFFFourth of July” is code too, for “Find 'em, , , , etc.,” which I won’t elaborate.
ETA: Christ what assholes.
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“Find em, fuck em & flee;” yeah, I heard that in high school and college… but by then, young adults weren’t using code words anymore.
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But Brookes, Ramirez’s roommate for a year, said she was present one night when Kavanaugh participated in an event with his fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Brookes said she believes there was “no way” he remembered all of the behavior she observed that night, when fraternity brothers pushed pledges to get “ridiculously drunk” and do “ridiculous things.”
OOOH, that explains it!
DKE - the fraternity that was banned from my campus the years I was there because their members decided to go in blackface to a Mardi Gras parade on the campus. The ones who were rumored to haze their pledges by tying a brick and a long string to their balls, taking them up to the top of the tallest dorm, and dropping the brick over the edge.
Something something goat fucking + pledges.
GW Bush’s old fraternity.
The one where the dudebro Young Republican who lived down the hall got to meet GW when he was campaigning in New Orleans and he gave him the secret handshake.
THAT Delta Kappa Episilon.
Yeah, fuck that dude. Choir boy my ass.
UPDATED: Here’s the skinny on Tulane’s DKE chapter:
A couple of weeks ago I received an allegation against John Georges which really disturbed me. I searched the internet for more information about the rumor and found that it had already been circulated for months… here and here.
The allegation involved Georges being the member of a Tulane fraternity notorious for its debauchery from hazing incidents to vandalism. Much of the stories were typical fraternity fare, but what distinguishes this frat from the norm is an annual party they threw called “The Debutramp Ball” which involved members of the fraternity dressing in blackface and conducting astonishingly racist acts.
I had heard about these incidents taking place at Tulane before, but I always thought they were isolated items which were most likely blown out of proportion.
I was wrong…very wrong.
I went down to the Tulane library to see what I could find out about this fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon (aka. Dekes). What I found still has my head spinning…a history of unapologetic, cavalier, racist acts which ran for decades up until the late 90’s.
The history of the Deke’s Debutramp Ball supposedly began in the early 50’s when there was a garbage strike in the city. The Dekes, who lived in a house on the 1400 block of Henry Clay, decided to help clean up their street in the wake of the strike. I suppose the fraternity mentality got the best of them and they decided to turn their community service into a party. The idea was that they would lampoon the debutante culture of New Orleans and Mardi Gras balls by throwing the trashiest party they could muster. They dressed themselves in clothes from Goodwill, ate sloppy food like spare ribs, and the king and queen of the ball even arrived at the party in a trash truck at one time.
Sounds like good ole’ college fun at first glance.
Somewhere down the line (maybe from the beginning) the party started taking on racist undertones, from dressing in blackface to carrying nooses.
Some of the stories I have heard are horrifying. While they certainly dressed in blackface (pictures to follow), there were also reports of members dressing as KKK members and rednecks with guns. The event eventually spawned a parade down McCallister Street where the frat hired flambeaus and mule drawn wagons driven by African Americans.
One of the more egregious stories claims that the Dekes would spread cotton balls around their house and yard, then hire destitute black men to roam the house and pick up the cotton.
That particular story is conjecture and I couldn’t find it documented in the library, but I did find a lot which was documented…even by the Deke’s themselves.
In 1987 the parade drew the fire of not just Tulane officials, but the entire community. The City Council and Mayor Sidney Barthelemy were approached to " take whatever steps are necessary and possible" to shut the fraternity down permanently.
Tulane President, Eamon Kelly, had already revoked the Deke’s charter in 1984 after finding them guilty of 4 violations of the IFC charter involving hazing, initiation abuse and communtiy complaints.
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This whole Kavanaugh thing is super fucked up on so many levels. So. Many.
What pisses me off most, though, is that there were already enough reasons to reject this person, even before the assault allegations came out. I also think that the republicans are glad for all this salacious stuff, because it deflects focus from the 92% of his records which are still hidden. That’s what they are really afraid of coming out, because that’s where the most damaging bodies are buried.
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Apparently the comment thread is worth reading too, if you have a FB account:
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Senate Republicans have now asked the ICE to cover for Kavanaugh. I guess the FBI wasn’t politically reliable enough?
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If the FBI suspects a crime, can’t they just investigate on their own?
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I don’t know. I suspect there will be a criminal complaint and investigation in Maryland within 1 or 2 weeks.
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